Selection of Independent Content Provider The following selection does not claim to present an exhaustive listing, but rather picks some of the most interesting provider of independent content. Independent Content Provider URL Classification of Content Association for Progressive Communication (APC) http://www.apc.org Social issues, environment, economy, Africa, women ZaMir.net http://www.zamir.net Anti-war, human rights (Yugoslavia) Institute for Global Communications (IGC) http://www.igc.org Peace, economy, human rights, democracy, environment, women, anti-racism FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) http://www.fair.org Media ZNet http://www.zmag.org Selection: culture, community/race/religion/ethnicity, ecology, economics/class, gender/kinship/sexuality, government/polity, international relations B2-92 http://www.freeb92.net Politics FREEnet (The Network for Research, Education and Engineering) http://www.free.net Research/academic/education c2o (Community Communications Online) http://www.c20.org Environment, social issues, human rights Antenna http://antenna.apc.org Development co-operation/emergency aid, environment, ecology, energy, media, art, culture PERDCA (The Project for Economic Reform and Development in Central Asia) http://www.silk.org Telecommunications, education, medicine Comlink http://www.comlink.org Peace, ecology, social issues, human rights Adbusters http://www.adbusters.org Culture, art RTMark http://www.rtmark.com Culture, art Interdoc http://www.oneworld.org/interdoc/ Labor, human rights, development, environment, peace GreenNet http://www.gn.apc.org Environment, peace, human rights, development UN (United Nations) http://www.un.org Peace, economy, social issues, development, justice, human rights, international law, humanitarian assistance and various specialized agencies Flipside http://www.flipside.org Economic, political, social, environmental Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org Human rights nettime http://www.nettime.org Culture FoeBud e.V. (Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs e.V.) http://www.foebud.org Research, politics, culture, arts, future/technology Corporate Watch http://www.corpwatch.org Social issues, politics, economy, environment Overcoming Consumerism http://www.hooked.net/users/verdant/index.htm Social issues, economy, environment NewsWatch http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/jsexton/NewsWatch/ Media IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange) http://www.ifex.org Media, human rights FAS (Federation of American Scientists) http://www.fas.org Science, technology, public policy UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) http://www.unesco.org Education, science, culture, communication Umwelt http://www.umwelt.org Environment

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Pressures and Attacks against Independent Content Providers: Serbia The independent Belgrade based FM radio-station B2-92, which from December 1996 on also broadcasts over the Internet, repeatedly has been the target of suppression and attacks by the Serbian government. B2-92 offices have been raided on numerous occasions and members of staff have been repeatedly harassed or arrested. In March 1999 the transmitter of radio B2-92 was confiscated yet again by the Serbian authorities and editor-in-chief, Veran Matic, was taken and held in custody at a police station. Ten days after the confiscation of B2-92's transmitter, Serbian police entered and sealed their offices. All members of staff were sent home and a new General Manager was appointed by Serbian officials. Although by closing B2-92, the Serbian regime may have succeeded in softening the voice of the independent content provider, with the distributive nature of the Internet and the international help of media activists, the regime will have little chance of silencing the entire flood of independent content coming out of former Yugoslavia.

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